Kathy Liebert Biography
Personal history
Kathy
Liebert was born in Nashville, Tennessee on October 1, 1967.
She grew up in Long Island, New York and went to Marist College
in Poughkeepsie where she studied business and finance. After
graduation, Kathy worked with Dun & Bradstreet, a company providing
credit information on businesses and corporations, but she later
resign to pursue other career prospects. Her stock market investments
success helped her leaved the job to travel the country.
Early poker career
Kathy Liebert learned poker by observing her parents play poker with friends in their house for a nickel-dime competitions. Her first Las Vegas casino poker game experience was when she made a stop in Las Vegas on her way to the West Coast. Kathy eventually ended up in Colorado where she enjoyed skiing in the Rockies. Gambling is legal in the Rockies so that she used to play a $5-limit poker game where she started honing her poker skills. Later she would become a paid prop player in casinos in Colorado, which she enjoyed doing. Her love of poker made her read books by top poker pros.
Encouraged by a friend and armed with her new skills and enthusiasm in poker, she went back to Las Vegas to play in the Omaha Hi-lo tournament. To her surprise, she ended up winning second in her first tournament. A week after that, she participated in a Texas Holdem tournament where she won second again. Kathy ended up making $34,000 of prize money for just a week’s worth of playing poker. That’s when she knew what she wanted to do – play poker.
Professional poker career
Kathy Liebert would start travelling to play in major tournaments that year where she won pretty fairly. She used her prize money to purchase houses in Las Vegas and California and invest in the stock market to serve as her fallback in times when poker winnings are low.
She followed poker where the tournaments took her to play in PartyPoker.com Million, World Poker Tour, and eventually in World Series of Poker (WSOP). Cardplayer Magazine ranked her among the top 20 players four times: 4th, 9th, 12th, and 18th, while she ranked third among the top female winners in World Series. Her total prize money that time was $459,435. Kathy Liebert would later coach actor James Woods in poker.
Poker achievements
Kathy Liebert’s remarkable poker achievements include topping the women’s poker tournament player with over all winnings of $4,100,000 at the end of 2007. She won a gold bracelet which is approximately $1,500 in 2004 WSOP with $110,180 prize money. She is the first woman to win a million dollar of prize money in Party Poker Millions, which later became the World Poker Tournament. Kathy’s ultimate goal is to become the first woman to win the World Poker Tournament.